Talks and media

A selection. Broadcast commentary in Estonia, and conference work across Europe.

A television studio in blue: a woman at a clear lectern, mid-sentence, facing an interviewer standing a few metres away. — Foresight Centre Annual Conference A Different Future. Source: Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) Photo Archive. Photograph: Erik Peinar.

2026
Expert commentary on the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive in EstoniaMedia
Aktuaalne Kaamera. Nädal, Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR)
2025
Who Works via Digital Labour Platforms in Estonia and why?Talk
Estonian Foresight Centre webinar, Tallinn
2025
Living One Day at a Time: The Level of Social Protection of Platform Workers in EstoniaTalk
ESAK Conference, Tallinn
2025
How does platform work affect the everyday lives of couriers?Media
What Colour is the Economy?, Estonian Public Broadcasting
2025
Rethinking Solidarity in Platform WorkTalk
Countervailing Platform Power: Regulation, Organizing and Intersectional Solidarities, Florence
2024
Organising Workers in the Digital Age: Collective Identity of Platform WorkersTalk
Estonian Trade Union Confederation
2023
How Does AI Change the Way We Work?Media
YouTube
2022
Trends and Challenges in the Estonian Labour Market: Platform Work Regulation and the Balance of InterestsTalk
Tallinn University of Technology, guest lecture in Economic Policy
2021
Platform Work in Estonia - Hobby or a Necessity? What Is the Recent Data Telling Us?Talk
Annual Conference of the Foresight Centre, Different Future
2020
The Four-Day Work WeekMedia
Suud Puhtaks, Estonian television panel discussion
2018
It was my own silly fault: the internalisation of responsibility among crowd workersTalk
Reshaping Work Conference, Amsterdam
2018
Voices for Social Justice in the Gig Economy: Where Labor, Policy, Technology and Activism ConvergeTalk
68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Prague
2018
Understanding the size and nature of virtual workTalk
Future of Work Conference, Estonian Parliament
2018
Crowd work in EuropeTalk
Crowdsourcing Code of Conduct workshop, IG Metall, Frankfurt
2017
Work in the European Gig EconomyTalk
Report launch, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, UNI Europa and University of Hertfordshire, Brussels
2016
Risk, self reliance and self control: the construction of individual professional identities in an online environmentTalk
34th International Labour Process Conference, Berlin Social Science Center
2013
Towards a Taxonomy of Virtual WorkTalk
The Evolution of Digital Labour symposium, 31st International Labour Process Conference, Rutgers University

An outdoor panel under a white marquee: five people on stage in garden chairs, one speaking into a microphone. — Panel discussion on platform work with Tanel Kiik (Minister of Health and Labour), representatives of Bolt and the Estonian Taxi Association, Opinion Festival, Paide, August 2021.

A vaulted stone cellar of a museum, seen from the back of a full audience, with five panellists seated under the arch. — Panel discussion “Life Experiments in the Economy” with former Estonian Minister of Economy Heido Vitsur and entrepreneurs, Estonian History Museum, September 2025.